Yeah. Old players die off, new blood either doesn't know about 'good old games' or is too enthralled with new shiny, playership dwindles or company loses interest, stuff dies. While what makes even old games fun for players may vary, one of the abiding reasons seems to be good story-telling; for other games, the challenge of a good dungeon or skill (Star Raiders, for instance - steady hand, good reflexes, and a bit of planning).

Another peeve of mine is the suprising number of classic games that while appa

If, in the future, you want to convince someone that software freedom is a good thing, or needs to be protected, you should pick your examples more carefully. You want to pick examples of closed software that people will go "Man, I HATE that!" Steam and netflix work against you here. You mention them, and I think "Hey, I like both of those things. Maybe closed source software isn't that bad?"

Instead of half life and steam, mention Sim City 4 and Origin. Instead of netflix, talk about trying to get t

"By using a proprietary software to read..." Really? What is "a software" -- is that like a hardware, an information, or a clothing? You have a piece of information, not "an information" for example. The brochure should be corrected to "By using a proprietary program" or "a proprietary piece of software..."

If your data is in a non-proprietary format, it really doesn't matter so much how proprietary the decoder is. Ironically enough, this can even apply to proprietary game binaries after a long enough time.

Now something like "Game of Thrones" benefits from being available in an industry standard format. It makes for a nice slow moving target in terms of liberated decoders.

The poster/other information list mp3s as being closed format, which is technically true because patents are still held regarding them. However, there isn't really a precedent for the patent holders going after any of the open source mp3 encoders that exist (e.g. LAME), meaning that the mp3 format has free/open software that uses it...which is what these people are pushing for, right? Maybe I'm just nitpicking, but I think a push from mp3 to ogg is nigh-impossible as it is, so it seems kind of silly for t

Every time I try to use it, I am confronted with the intuitiveness and the additional time spent hunting around menus for the things I want (coming from Office 2003). The last time I checked, their replacement for excel is lacking too...

But by supporting LibreOffice, presumably one could fix those problems, and make the software greater than the competition. Supporting closed source platforms like Microsoft Windows, Office, Gmail, google calander, Exchange, etc... actually prevents decent alternatives fro

I use both Libra and Microsoft. There's a big difference in my ability to interact with the world. I want to use LibreOffice whole hog because the interface is relatively stable from one version to the next, but I've concluded my government actively works to shut down open software and open documents, as it races towards "e-gov."

I loved the pre-ribbon MS-Office interface. (e.g. Office 2003) It had a semi-understandable philosophy of organization, toolbars were stable, easily customized and it took very